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doc34
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Vermont Oysters?
#4295227 - 06/14/05 03:06 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Found in SouthWest Vermont.






I need a Id,cause I plan to clone these if they are. Thanks
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: doc34]
#4295242 - 06/14/05 03:11 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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DEFINETLY!!! glad to find another vermont mushroomer... just started finding oysters myself this year yesterday, wahoo!! gunna have multiple clones going to see if they perform better... where in s. vermont are you?
what other types have you found/clone? chicken of the woods is out... the pheasant back is almost done... yay vt edibles
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doc34
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Cool, thanks my friend Now to get busy 
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where in s. vermont are you?
That be Bennington and Yourself?
Pheasant Back? What are those --->I just moved here from Fla.
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: doc34]
#4295273 - 06/14/05 03:24 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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got the audubon field guide? lookup polyporus squamosus.. once you know it its super easy to identify... and chicken of the woods... another polypore, very bright orange and yellow, growing on hardwoods... pheasant back usually grows on elms but sometimes maples.. glad to see the oysters are here.. and you, welcome to vermont! we're up in the northeast kingdom, near st johnsbury... a few hours north of you.. gunna go pickin now actually.. thanks for the beautiful pics! peace
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got the audubon field guide?
Unfortunately, I do not 
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lookup polyporus squamosus..
These:



 I haven't found any "Chicken Of The Wooods" yet,But i'm looking for that too.
Thank you for your help and happy shroomin!
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: doc34]
#4295783 - 06/14/05 05:05 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Nice pics.
Chicken of the woods is pretty good.. It has thick white flesh with a orange/red/yellow surface. I just tried some last season for the first time that I picked in the woods. I often find them to be very large and stand out quite well.
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: eris]
#4295901 - 06/14/05 05:33 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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great pic of the chicken eris.. the ones i have found have been on standing trees or large fallen logs and look more like shelf mushrooms then that.. which looks to memore like a turkey tail formation or hen of the woods.. really pretty
doc- the pheasant back is pretty much done for this year.. they are some of the first mushies to come out in spring, before even morels.. you really want them at the button or just as they fan out as they get tough as they get older..
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: doc34]
#4296022 - 06/14/05 05:54 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Hey doc! Haven't seen you for a while 
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mattymonkey said: the pheasant back is almost done... yay vt edibles
Haven't heard P squamosus called that before. We tend to call em dryads saddle over here.
You eat those? What are they like?
I found a young specimen a week or so ago but heard they aren't worth the belly room.
Chicken of the woods is out early here in the UK. Found a nice specimen at my local hospital but some asshole called security on me!
I was like hey, it kills trees! I'm doing you a favour! 
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: Bi0TeK]
#4296497 - 06/14/05 07:41 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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eris --->Very nice. Thanks for sharing--I'm still looking for the elusive "Chicken". Lol
Bi0TeK ---> Yeah, I've been busy relocating,lol.
mattymonkey ---> I have been up here since 5/2,but just recently have I been able to explore the woods around here.
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: Bi0TeK]
#4296534 - 06/14/05 07:50 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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dryad's saddle yes! thats what i first knew them as but since ive learned the new name(as well as my teacher calling it that) ive adopted it and rather like it... i actually think there must be something in the name because when i knew of them as dryad's saddle i was not too impressed with them much at all.. i think the secret is truly in when you pick it, the younger the better.. once they get to be over 3 inches they are really getting tough, the younger the tenderer! if thats a word... we saute them in oil/maple syrup/tamari and broil/bake them or roast them over the fire, yum! they are great just sauted with butter in a pan too.. as long as you get them when they are tender... i actually sell them to gourmet restaurants now for $13/lb
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The specimens I found were young and tender but I'll have to try them next season, I fear they're past they're best here now 
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matty, There is a difference between the chicken mushrooms you've found and the ones pictured here. There are now several species of Laetiporus- the one pictured here that grows off of horizontal surfaces and spreads out in larger circles is laetiporus cincinnatus, while the "shelf" variety is the familiar laetiporus sulphureus. I've heard that cincinnatus is tastier and more completely edible. I've found cincinnatus, but unfortunately didn't sample it because i left it out too long! Nice finds, by the way
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: Bi0TeK]
#4296758 - 06/14/05 08:50 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I remember collecting them in August. They grow quickly for polypores so get them when you see orange.
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Re: Vermont Oysters? [Re: nycomyco]
#4296774 - 06/14/05 08:53 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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wow! so interesting.. i wonder if the cincinnatus species grow here.. i will ask my teacher! im glad to have one!
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